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PHIL HINE
Contents
Introduction ......................................................... 5
Howling ............................................................... 7
Servitors ............................................................. 13
GoHu Servitor ................................................... 19
Functional Spirits .............................................. 22
Some Observations from the Goetia Project ..... 25
Evoking Yog-Sothoth ......................................... 27
Also Published:
Condensed Chaos, New Falcon Publications 1995
Prime Chaos, Chaos International 1993
The Pseudonomicon, Dagon Productions 1997
In Adobe Acrobat Format (Somewhere on the WWW):
Oven-Ready Chaos
PerMutations
Running Magical Workshops: Notes for Facilitators
Group Ego-Magick Exercises
Touched by Fire (Techniques of Modern Shamanism vol.3)
Awaiting Conversion:
Walking Between The Worlds: Techniques of Modern
Shamanism Vol.1
Two Worlds & Inbetween: The Worlds: Techniques of Modern
Shamanism Vol.2
Chaos Servitors: A User Guide
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Introduction
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The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be,
not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and
primal, undimensioned, and to us unseen. Yog Sothoth knows the gate.
Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate.
Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the
Old Ones broke through of old, and where they shall break through
again. ...They walk unseen and foul in lonely places where the Words
have been spoken and the Rites howled through at their Seasons. The
wind gibbers with their voices and the earth mutters with their
consciousness.
This passage brings to mind the timeslip phenomena
discussed above. What is equally, if not more interesting in the
light (no pun intended) of the present discussion is that in other
Mythos tales, Yog-Sothoth is described as a conglomerate of
iridescent globes - in other words, a light form phenomena!
The entity is also associated with strange atmospheric effects
such as freak winds and storms (Lovecraft is known to have
carefully related some of his fictional events with floods,
earthquakes, and other such occurrence)s. To me, this stresses
further the validity of Lovecrafts dream-inspired fiction as a
valid source of magical ideas.
The guidelines to evoking Yog-Sothoth appear, at least as far
as The Dunwich Horror sets them forth, to be quite clear and
operationally valid. Investigation of the entity has (in my view)
suffered from the negative connotations of association with
Choronzon as an entity of dispersal, or negative chaos. The
emerging science of Chaos Dynamics can perhaps afford us a
more positive viewpoint, and the link between Mythos entities
and the Mandelbrot Set has already been noted by EOD
initiates. From the foregoing, I would suggest that Yog-Sothoth
is quite possible a kind of guide entity that appears in many
cultures as the guardian of the underworld entered through
ASCs, though one which is capable of manifesting as a series,
perhaps, of electro- magnetic phenomena. The entity which
coheres in the form we understand as Yog-Sothoth is a window
into the darkness of the unknown, and perhaps by creating
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Howling
Mayhem speaks louder than words.
Brother Moebius B., L.O.O.N.
The Babblogue:
A deliberate derangement of the senses - orchestrating a personal
cacophony; a descent into the depths of the subconscious, to
confront and bind the lurkers within.
This essay is a short account of a personal exploration of the
demons of my own psyche. Rather than relying on existing
approaches, for the reasons given below, I preferred to develop
a purely personal approach. I give this account not to foist this
particular approach onto others, but in the hope that it will
assist those who are experimenting with different techniques.
Nor do I wish to invalidate the traditional systems of Goetic
magic, merely to say that while some may be satisfied to follow
the maps of Abra-Melin or Crowley, this is not the case for me.
This work began fairly innocuously, with the compilation of
a black book - a dissection of self, in terms of habits,
shortcomings, faults, hopes, ideals, all that I was, that I wished
to be, or rejected. Likes, dislikes, attractions and revulsions.
Then on to self-portraits; written in the third person - positive,
negative, neutral portrayals, a curriculum vitae, an obituary. To
this was added a Book of Blunders - every mistake or
embarrassing moment that could be dredged up, cuttings from
school reports, photographs and letters which brought back
painful memories.
Choice extracts from this catalogue were read onto tapes, and
the tapes scrambled together to form cut-up sequences. A
deliberate attempt at psychic surgery this - smashing the vessel
in order to remould it.
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slept for about 18 hours, and awoke clear of the frenetic delirium
which had been built up.
Commentary
The Hierarchy of Human Needs
Traditionally, Demons and Devils are organised according to
ranks and hierarchies with Princes ruling lesser demons. The
grimoires seem to imply that if Hell exists, then it is a
bureaucracy, and so by the same token, Earthly bureaucracies
are demonic structures - as anyone who has had any dealings
with the DHSS will readily testify.
The hierarchy used in the Babblogue was developed by the
psychologist Abraham Maslow, to show how the various levels
of need influence behaviour and motivation. His hierarchy
of Human Needs is a pyramid of desires, ranging from
biological survival needs (food, shelter, etc.) to more complex
needs:
It strikes me that the above model is also valid for a wide range
of magical phenomena connected with spirit contacts - that the
human tendency to relate to all things as though they are discrete
phenomena ( surely a property of how our brains organise
information ) enables us to generate masks or personae upon
the energy for ms we are encountering. Channelled
communications from entities are often a by-product of UFO
experiences as well as psychic encounters. It may well be that
our interaction with energy forms gives rise to such constructs that masks are created and retained by the energy structures,
not from any kind of self-referential intelligence on the part of
the Earth Lights, but from the principle (from Systems Theory)
that some energy forms are attracted towards structures of higher
cohesiveness, such as the information field generated by the
human brain, or possibly the electro-magnetic field generated
by cars, power lines, etc.
All of which leads us slowly back to Stone Circles; Lovecrafts
frienzied rites on the hilltops, and the role that sound plays in
all of this. There is a great deal of magical literature available
exploring the dynamics of sound, particularly different vocal
techniques used to produce an Altered State of
Consciousness(ASC). One of the key factors seems to be rhythm.
rhythms carry our consciousness along, from heartbeats, to cycles
of breathing, sleeping, night-day and the passage of seasons.
rhythms promote associated body movements and adjustments,
and act as a signal to begin movement without conscious effort,
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Biological
Safety
Affiliative
Esteem
Cognitive
Aesthetic
Self-Actualization
What we are you cannot realise and it is a waste of time to try and
do so but you can imagine (italics mine) us on the astral plane and we
can contact you through your imagination, and though your mental
picture is not real or actual, the results of it are real and actual.
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Further Reading:
Nightside of Eden - Kenneth Grant
Shamanic Voices - Joan Halifax
The Great Mother - Neumann
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Cities of the Red Night - William S. Burroughs
The Book of Pleasure - Austin Osman Spare
Thundersqueak - Angerford & Lea
The Masks of God - Joseph Campbell
An Introduction to Psychology - Hilgard, Atkinson & Atkinson
Liber Null - Pete Carroll
This essay was published in Nox Magazine, issue 6, 1988.
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Servitors
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Viral Servitors
It is possible to instruct Servitors to replicate or reproduce
assume to be gods.
To side-step for a moment, I wish to look again at some of
the phenomena associated with UFO and spectral encounters.
One factor that rises time and again to haunt the sceptical
researcher is the commonality of experiences between different
individuals who come into contact with these anomalies.
Historical research into UFO flaps shows that there have been
spates of sightings of mysterious spirits, dirigibles, aircraft,
submarines, and of course, flying saucers, throughout history.
Also, numerous reports from individuals who have been
contacted by extra- terrestrial entities show similar structural
features in the accounts which have been remembered (often
by hypnosis being used as a recall technique). In dealing with
such phenomena, there is obviously a great many factors which
need to be taken into consideration, but I would like to discuss
some of the possible processes which are occurring, with the
aim of weaving them into the discussion later.
Perhaps I should begin by making a declaration; that I do
not believe that consciousness is a purely internal or subjective
experience; rather, it is an emergent property of our interaction
with the biosphere as a whole. I would assert that consciousness,
and the self-referential awareness of human beings, are not
necessarily one and the same. When individuals encounter
something outside their embedded structure of how the world
should be - that is, consensus reality, it seems to me that there
is a factor which can be termed the credibility envelope which
comes into play, whereby an individual fits the experience
into a category that least strains the limitations of consensus
reality. Thus a strange encounter may become a meeting with a
religious entity, a ghost, or creatures from outer space. Conscious
belief in the validity of such entities is not necessarily a factor,
since all these phenomena are part of the folklore of the
unknown and can be present as memes (units of information)
in the subconscious mind of the individual, thanks to our
information-rich culture, with its vast networks of media for
the transmission of information. Investigation into such
experiences suggests that people, given some form of unusual
stimulus, such a strange light, will elaborate all kinds of
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Servitor Dependency
It is generally held that each usage of a Servitor serves to feed
it, and that each result which is rated as a success, serves to
enhance its power. It is also a good idea to get into the habit of
attributing any occurrences within the sphere of activity of that
Servitor, to its work. This can lead to problems, though. In
1992 I created a Servitor called Eureka. Its given sphere of
activity was that of Illumination - inspiration, new ideas, the
boosting of creativity and brainstorming in general. Initially,
the Servitor exceeded all my expectations of its performance. I
used it to stimulate new ideas for writing, lecturing and facilitating
seminars & workshops. With a colleague, it became a focus for
brainstorming - acting as a Third Mind arising from conversation.
Each time we made a creative leap, or an idea formed became
something workable in practice, the power of the Servitor was
boosted. In 1993, the activity of Eureka was linked with the
Neptune-Uranus conjunction with the result that, on April 22nd,
as Neptune & Uranus began to retrograde, Eureka went offline.
The immediate result of this was that I suddenly found it
much harder to get into a flow of creative thinking. It seemed
that Eureka had become such a dominant element in the
dynamics of my own creative process that, once it was removed,
I found it much harder to get into the appropriate frame of
mind. I had become dependent upon the Servitor. Eventually,
the Servitor was recalled and disassembled in such a way that a
splinter of its original power survived as a focus for
illumination. Having been made wiser by this experience, I
only occasionally use this fragment of the original servitor as a
focus for creativity.
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hours etc. How far you go in this direction is very much a matter
of personal choice.
2. Defining Specific Intent
Here, you are creating the core of the Servitors purpose the
Statement of Intent which is analogous to the Servitors aetheric
DNA. Formulating the Servitors Statement of Intent may
necessitate a good deal of self-analysis into your motivations,
desires, realistic projections of goals, etc. As in all sorcery
operations, it is appropriate to ask advice from your preferred
form of divination. To continue the example of a Healing
Servitor, an appropriate Statement of Intent might be:
To promote rapid recovery and health in ...(name)...
Once you have determined the appropriate Intent to form
the basis of your Servitor, then the Statement can be rendered
into a sigil, or glyph..
3. What Symbols Are Appropriate to the Servitors Task?
There is a wealth of magical & mythic symbols which you
can draw upon when creating a servitor, which can be used to
represent different qualities, abilities and attributes. There is
also the symbolism of colour, smell, sound & other sensory media
to draw upon. In order to refine the program which forms the
basis for your servitor further, you could embellish the sigil by
adding other symbols.
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Evoking Yog-Sothoth
Introduction
One of the aims of the Esoteric Order of Dagon is to develop effective
magical techniques with which to interact with the Great Old
Ones. As a member of the Pylon of Yog-Sothoth Lodge, I
have become increasingly interested in the possibility of ritually
evoking this entity as a tangible phenomena. The aim of this
article is to expound a possible methodology by which entities
such as Yog-Sothoth can be contacted, drawing together research
in different fields of enquiry, and exploring how they relate to
the Cthulhu Mythos.
I feel that, rather than exploring Lovecraftian themes using
traditional magical systems such as the Qabalah (though
obviously, it may provide a useful parallel), the most obvious
place to look for guidelines is Lovecrafts fiction itself. From
this, we find that for example, in The Dunwich Horror, Lovecraft
clearly illustrates that hilltop rites, associated with stone circles
and strange geophysical phenomena, are a key when
approaching entities such as Yog-Sothoth. Bringing the Great
Old Ones into our dimension requires some form of gate,
which in mythos tales, is often a wild outdoor site, a stone
circle, tower, or a similar type of power spot. Lovecraft is also
careful to point out that such sites have, in historical terms, a
long history of strange manifestations associated with them.
Again and again, he places great emphasis on the folklore of
those who live on the borders of such areas; that locals have
traditions that the educated sceptics appearing in the tales scoff
at.
The theme of specific regions which have a long history of
strange manifestations is well-documented. John Keel, in Strange
Creatures From Time & Space, explores several cases involving the
manifestation of strange beings that appear to be localised to a
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GoHu Servitor
This short essay is an account of one of my most successful
servitors to date.
The twin spirits of gossip and rumour have followed me about
ever since I started doing things on the UK magical scene.
Rumours ranging from allegations of affiliation to dark satanic
groups to upheavals in my sex-life have whirled around and in
some instances, ended up in the pages of pagan zines. Back in
the late 80s, Pagan At The Heart magazine announced to their
readers that I had become celibate, and followed this up with
the announcement that they could name the lady who
overcame my will - unfortunately, they got not only the name
but also the gender of the person concerned wrong, but I suppose
its the thought that counts!
At times I have become both paranoid and pissed off by the
rumours I heard circulating about myself. During a particularly
bad phase of feeling like this, I started working on a Gossip
Hunter-Seeker-Killer servitor, whose task would be to hover
around on the astral, detecting gossip and firing off a missile
containing some suitably horrible runic curse. I actually got as
far as testing this entity - firing off a blank missile at an
unsuspecting colleague - just to see if it worked the way I wanted
it to - before realising that I was going a teensy wee bit over the
top about the whole thing.
Instead of thinking, Get the Bastards I began to look at the
whole issue of gossip & rumour in a new light. After all, if
people are talking about you behind your back, they could be
said to be feeding you energy. As Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
wisely note in Good Omens: Notoriety wasnt as good as fame,
but was heaps better than obscurity. Bearing this in mind, I
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Functional Spirits
One approach to Evocation is working with Spirits which have
a provenance over a particular situation or experience. Entities
such as these are detailed in grimoires such as The Lesser Key of
Solomon the King which are handbooks of spirits, giving details of
spirits typical forms, names, sigils, and how to conjure them.
The spirits in books such as the Lesser Key have bizarre names,
even more bizarre appearances, yet their powers are directly
functional and useful. For example, RAUM appears as a
blackbird, and can create love, reconcile enemies, or destroy
cities and reputations.
The standard approach to summoning these spirits is to use
the time-honoured magical ritual, wherein the entities are called
forth into a triangle, and ceremonially bound to the magicians
will. However, there is also another possibility, which is simply
that of summoning a Spirit when you find yourself in an
appropriate situation. The following example illustrates this
process.
All of us, at one time or another, suffer from being stuck in
traffic, from freeway jams to slow-moving queues of people.
Wouldnt it be nice to be able to whistle up the assistance of a
spirit which enabled you to start moving? A big hand please
folks for the spirit GOFLOWOLFOG, the spirit who eases traffic
blockages so that you can continue your journey. Goflowolfog
typically appears in the form of a shades-wearing cat riding a
skateboard. He brings with him a wind, and a noise which sounds
like Neeeowww. He is of a cool, stylish disposition.
Gowflowolfog can be summoned when you are in a situation
which falls under his governance, such as being stuck in a very
crowded train (during a heatwave) which in accordance with
the snafu principle, has stopped and shows no sign of moving
again. In such a situation, listen out for the Neeowww and
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